The frequent use of composite materials, in the strengthening of reinforced concrete structures requires complete knowledge of the structural behavior because of the changes that such strengthening will cause to the overall stiffness,the collapse load, the cracks distribution and the behavior and position of the neutral axis. Over the last few years experimental studies have been performed,bringing out more trustworthy parameters for ultimate strength design. In this work, a computational program was implemented based on the finite element method, which is able to describe the flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete beams. The model used in this program is that of Elwi and Murray -1979-, which assumes a so-called hypo elastic theory for concrete and a approach to simulate the reinforcement. These relationships were derived from reinforced concrete analytical and experimental studies and are originally implemented in the FEPARCS program -Elwi and Murray, 1980-, which has been modified in order to obtain a more realistic approach to in- service structural strengthening. The program developed, which is able to perform non-linear numerical analyses, is coupled to pre and pos-processing graphic programs specially developed for model generation, management of the calculation sequence and presentation of final results. The results produced by this program have been validated by comparison with experimental results available in literature.